Refusal Requires a Guerilla Mentality • Ill Will
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The following organizational speech was delivered by Rudi Dutschke on September 5, 1967, at the 22nd delegates’ conference of the Socialist German Students’ Union (SDS).1 Written together with #Hans-Jürgen_Krahl, it boldly announced an anti-authoritarian breakaway from the traditionalist wing of the organization, immediately provoking fierce controversy.
[...] Extra-economic coercive violence gains immediate economic potency in integral statism. Thus it plays a role for the present capitalist social formation, a role that it has not played since the days of primitive accumulation. If in that phase it brought about the bloody process of the expropriation of the masses, which in turn brought about the separation of wage labor and capital in the first place, according to Marx it is hardly used in established competitive capitalism.
For the objective self-movement of the concept of the commodity form, its value constitutes itself into the natural laws of capitalist development to the extent that economic violence is internalized in the consciousness of the immediate producers. The internalization of economic violence allows a tendential liberalization of state and political, moral and legal rule. In the current crisis, the inherently produced crisis condition of capitalist development problematizes the internalization of economic violence, which, according to the interpretation of materialist theory, has two solutions. On the one hand, the crisis facilitates the emergence of proletarian class consciousness and its organization into material counter-violence through the autonomous action of the self-liberating working class. On the other hand, it objectively compels the bourgeoisie to resort to the physically terrorist coercive power of the state in the interest of its economic power of control.
Capitalism’s way out of the world economic crisis in 1929 was based on its fixation on the terrorist power structure of the fascist state. After 1945, this extra-economic coercive violence was by no means dismantled, but was psychologically implemented on a totalitarian scale.
This internalization included the disavowal of manifest internal repression and was constitutive of pseudo-liberalism and pseudo-parliamentarism, albeit at the price of the anti-communist projection of an absolute external enemy.